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Save The Date: The 13th Annual Walter Rodney Symposium
Save The Date: The 13th Annual Walter Rodney Symposium
Groundings
The 13th Annual Walter Rodney Symposium will be held on March 18th & 19th, 2016 at the Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta, Georgia. The theme will be "Youth Matters: An International Groundings."
Advertisement For The 12th Annual Walter Rodney Symposium
Advertisement For The 12th Annual Walter Rodney Symposium
Groundings
The poster for the 12th Annual Walter Rodney Symposium to be held March 20th and 21st, 2015.
Groundings Volume Two, Issue One
Groundings Volume Two, Issue One
Groundings
This is the full isee of Groundings Vol. 2, Iss. 1.
Groundings Volume One, Issue One
Groundings Volume One, Issue One
Groundings
This is the full issue of Groundings Vol. 1, Iss. 1.
The New African Diaspora: Engaging The Question Of Brain Drain-Brain Gain, Akanmu Adebayo
The New African Diaspora: Engaging The Question Of Brain Drain-Brain Gain, Akanmu Adebayo
Journal of Global Initiatives: Policy, Pedagogy, Perspective
The literature on the New African Diaspora is growing. One of the latest is the volume co-edited by Isidore Okpewho and Nkiru Nzegwu, published by Indiana University Press in 2009. A common thread in the literature is the identification of the "brain drain" as a major consequence of the establishment of the New African Diaspora. Another common postulation is that the "brain drain" can be turned into "brain gain" through the concerted efforts of African governments, international organizations, and members of the diaspora themselves. This paper interrogates popular and intellectual assumptions about diaspora, brain drain, and brain gain. The paper …
African Catholicism And The Diaspora Phenomenon: A Socio-Political Analysis Of African Priests In The Diaspora, Iheanyi Maurice Enwerem
African Catholicism And The Diaspora Phenomenon: A Socio-Political Analysis Of African Priests In The Diaspora, Iheanyi Maurice Enwerem
Journal of Global Initiatives: Policy, Pedagogy, Perspective
Religious agents, including Catholic priests, are no exception with regards to involvement in the diaspora phenomenon. Among them, especially in the most recent time, are those who, for the purposes of this paper, are identified as "African Catholic priest-diasporas" (African priest diasporas, for short); that is, those Catholic priests from Africa who, for a variety of reasons, relocated from the continent to reside in a foreign country where they exercise their priestly ministry. This new and growing group of diasporas obviously forms part of the "African Diasporas"-a group African Union (AU) considers as Africa's "sixth region" (Auma, 2009). The paper …